What are your worst PE memories?

[OneUmberJoker]

Breaking my arm playing football

I’m fucking horrified and fuming for us all. Thank you for creating this thread @OneUmberJokerbecause I didn’t know that the shower thing was so wide spread and I’ve never been able to talk to anyone about the humiliation I felt, neither have I spoken about the teacher.

There was another teacher not PE who put his arm around me and grabbed my breast in front of another male teacher. All these memories flooding back. So sad.

I remember the p.e teacher being a nasty,spiteful bitch who hated anyone who wasn't the best at sport (I.e me)

I remember being on my (very heavy) period and standing waiting to be picked for a team at netball (this was my second/third sports lesson at the school)

I was second to last to be picked and the top dog (pretty,sporty and the favourite) picked me rather than the other girl

'NO!NO!NO!YOU DONT WANT NAVY!SHES UNBELIEVABLY WEAK AND PATHETIC!YOU WANT BETTER THAN THAT!'

And she made me the last to be picked and shouted at me for every move I made (she also made us shower naked while she watched and made me,and only me go to assembly in my p.e kit so the whole school saw me in my shorts and i knew i was 'on' so was even more paranoid about leaking in the tiny shorts)

Every lesson was her pulling me down and screaming at me for nothing apart from she didnt like me

It went downhill from there and as soon as I left,I never did any sports again (which was a shame as I loved tennis,badminton and volleyball when she wasn't screaming at me)

Years later,my dd went to the same school and had the same teacher

She hadn't changed a bit

"and looked like a length of biltong in a netball skirt" 😆Made me laugh and I can picture her too!

Having to do PE in our underwear at primary school, just had to take our clothes off in the class room and walk across to the hall.

Communal showers, grotty changing rooms that were never clean. Always had plasters and general crap on the floor. The showers were filthy the water freezing and all teacher stood either end to make sure we didn’t run through.

Fracturing a bone in my foot and a male teacher carried me to the sick bay. The nurse gave me a paracetamol and told me to get on with the rest of my day. My parents were furious

In year 6 our PE lessons were right after lunch in the hall. We had to have bare feet and would get crumbs and food bits stuck to them. I once slipped on custard and fell over.

In secondary, unless you were on one of the school sport teams, the teachers wouldn't bother to learn names and would announce what the sport was and leave the majority to it. The netball teams girls would then have their own little club with the teacher doing specific practice, running team practicing starts while the rest walk round the field etc.

Girls school. PE kit was a short skirt. We were regularly required to play this game using a ball to pass overhead:
I cannot believe the PE teachers were so ignorant, making teenage girls show off their underwear for all to see. There are 1001 other ways to keep fit whilst preserving young peoples dignity. Shame on those PE teachers!! 😡

Getting bollocked in front of the whole class for wearing the wrong T shirt on my very first day at secondary school. The bitch of a PE teacher made me stand up in front the class while she shouted at me.

Getting rapped over the knuckles with a lacrosse stick in freezing temperatures.

Not being allowed to shower afterwards, just having to get straight back into uniform while all sweaty.

Good times!

In Year 8 we were playing a game that was like baseball but with a football sized ball. The teacher asked me to help her demonstrate how to kick a ball so I threw the ball to her and she kicked it but instead of kicking it out field like she had said you were meant to do she kicked it straight back at me. It hit me in the face and broke my nose.

In Year 11, I had a girlfriend and some lads in my year found out after seeing us out in town together. It was shared across MSN that night and on Monday the girls in my PE class (with the exception of my 3 good friends and 2 other girls I didn’t know well but became good friends after this) staged a protest refusing to go in to the changing rooms with me in case I decided to perv on them. The teacher just sent me to the counsellor for the lesson to talk about it and the lesson continued without me there. The next lesson the same thing happened again. I hadn’t told my parents about having a girlfriend so couldn’t do too much about it but still her angry now and then when I think about how I was treated. Eventually I was allowed back in but the girls made a huge fuss over covering up when taking tops off around me.

Good grief, that’s horrendous, but I shouldn’t be surprised. Homophobia was absolutely virulent in schools when I was growing up (80s and 90s). I often think about what a hostile environment that was for gay teenagers. It was bad enough for teachers; my boarding school had a female couple living together, running two girls’ houses, and the constant homophobic comments and jokes were really bad.

I know !!

Our schools cross country was brutal ,some girls got caught hiding and we all had the same consequence which was - we would never be allowed to do cc again ! and we didn't ! all our Christmas's came at once .
Throughout secondary every one of our pe teachers without exception was an absolute evil sadistic psychopathic bitch but we were one tough group of girls and often got one over on them .
The showers were truly awful , thank God these don't happen now i only got forced through once, every other time we would run back before the teacher pull bra straps down ,wrap the towel around us and splash water on our shoulders,making sure to leave wet foot prints from the shower to the bench😂
No wonder so many girls developed a lifelong hatred of sport.

There was really no need for it to be so unpleasant was there.....cubicles, time to shower and proper clothing would have sorted most of this out (and maybe better screening of PE teachers!)

I used to really enjoy PE. It was an all girls comprehensive - no showers and no male PE teachers. There was a genuine enthusiasm from the teachers who were trying to get the teenage girls into exercise and sport. This was the early 90s.

Sorry to hear of so many bad experiences of others.

1. Being stood out in the cold doing fuck all cos I we were an odd number and I once again hadn't been picked for a team. We had a brand new state of the art fitness suite, at least of they'd put me in there i would have been doing something.
2. As the slowest runner i was way behind doing cross-country, as I rounded the final corner my whole class started applauding. I was humiliated.
3. Having to do gym in my pants cos I had lost my blackies (gym knickers).

Walking through the showers in a long line and the PE teacher tapping our naked bums at the end. I left school in 1996.

Breaking my toe and being made to finish the class because I was "making it up"
Had to have a couple of weeks off for that.
Being humiliated in front of my classmates on my first day of high school because I was forced to attempt a cartwheel despite arguing that I couldn't do them.
She was quite the cunt that woman.

A trainee PE teacher nearly broke my neck, and probably would’ve if I didn’t have a connective tissue disorder- although I wasn’t diagnosed at the time.

She was getting us to do flips on to mats and grabbing us at the waist to help us rotate, but when it was my turn she turned around when someone shouted and missed me, causing me to land on my head.

I hurt my neck really badly, but to compound this, instead of leaving me there and calling an ambulance, she got an office chair and lifted me on to it so she could continue the lesson and got someone to wheel me to reception, where a lady from the school office put me in her car and drove me to A&E!

They were utterly horrified when I arrived and immobilised me before doing X-rays etc. I spent weeks in a neck brace.

Funnily enough, I was never a fan of PE after that.

That's terrible, was that teacher never disciplined for her actions? Shocking!

The popular, sporty girls being made sports captain and vice captain then always being in the last couple of kids to be picked every time when they choose teams.

Having to shower naked along with all the other girls up to about age 15. The pe teacher would come and rip our towels down if we tried to hold them infront of us to prserve some modesty. (this was up to the mid 90s).

Only being allowed to wear 'althletic briefs' with a tucked in airtex polo top to run cross country which took us along the main road. There would always be lots of men beeping their horns at us, just the way to encourage relectant young teens to get into running!

Also being made to do cross country running in my studded hockey boots because I'd forgotten my trainers, then sliding and falling on gravel and having to have stitches in my leg.

Freezing to death doing cross country running in the Scottish winter. (My parents didn't kit me out in more winter friendly sportswear).

Gym teacher picking me out to help demonstrate Scottish country dancing - 11 year old me died of embarrassment. Still can't go near a dance floor sober!

Walking a mile back to school after swimming lessons with sopping wet hair as the pool only had one hairdryer that you had to pay for. Only equalled by the embarrassment of having to sit out swimming lessons once a month but rather than be discreet, we had to sit at the poolside so the teacher could keep an eye on us. The immature boys would humiliate us with period shaming 🙄.

Absolutely agree!

Mid 80s - yes communal showers as PPs have mentioned and. Our female PE teacher used to kick us in the bum if we didn't run quickly enough at cross country, but not that hard and I never felt it was mean but maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment 🤔. I wasn't one of the super sporty girls but I was in the netball team and didn't mind most of the activities. Never liked hockey as one particularly troubled girl would literally use her hockey stick to slash at people's legs whenever she could get away with it.
I don't remember being particularly bothered / traumatised by any of these things but it doesn't make them OK!

@WongKarWaiMeThe brown knickers were part of the school uniform! The knicker inspections not only took place in PE but also in our classroom by our form teachers.

I just do not understand the justification for that at all. If your knickers are under your clothes then why do they have to be a certain colour? How could anyone have thought that knicker inspections on children were ever a reasonable thing to do?

I guess we were lucky that PE was the last lesson of the day so no one bothered with the communal showers and teachers didn't enforce it. It was the late 90"s when i went to secondary school so maybe it was different plus in a selective private girls school we didn't have male PE teachers.